The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

by Erika Johansen

Beware the past, Kelsea. Be a steward.”

The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of it. And yet somehow, my friends, we know.

The future was only the disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew.

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”

They had found the seven volumes of Rowling with no help at all, but there was no squabbling.

Time stretched years back and years forward, but nothing that came afterward ever had the power to wash away what came before.

There’s danger in a system of justice that makes no allowance for circumstance.”